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Speaker 1: Episode four, The Widening Gyre, Part two of three. It
Speaker 1: was already dark as Guy Playfair approached the front gate
Speaker 1: of two hundred and eighty four Green Street for the
Speaker 1: first time in the early evening of Monday twelfth of September.
Speaker 1: A one faced Peggy greeted him at the door. Though
Speaker 1: clearly exhausted, she thanked him warmly for coming and promptly
Speaker 1: showed him through to the kids, where, over a cup
Speaker 1: of tea, she did her best to fill him in
Speaker 1: on all the mayhem of the last few weeks. Guy
Speaker 1: was struck immediately by how resolute Peggy was and how
Speaker 1: clearly desperate she was to get to the bottom of
Speaker 1: whatever was going on. If anyone here was in on it,
Speaker 1: he thought it certainly wasn't Peggy. Afterwards, Guy was introduced
Speaker 1: to the children in the living room. Thirteen year old
Speaker 1: Margaret and seven year old Billy both sat quietly together
Speaker 1: on the sofa, while in contrast, eleven year old Janet
Speaker 1: seemed unable to sit still, and when Guy asked her
Speaker 1: to describe all that had happened in the last twelve days,
Speaker 1: he could barely keep up as the words tumbled fast
Speaker 1: out of her mouth. Then Daily Mirror photographer Graham Morris
Speaker 1: stepped in to introduce himself and was soon regaling Guy
Speaker 1: with his own stories about all the peculiar things he'd
Speaker 1: witnessed so far, though sadly, as he explained, he was
Speaker 1: yet to capture any of the bizarre activity on film.
Speaker 1: Then later, away from the family, he told Guy a
Speaker 1: little more about what he'd seen, as Maurice Gross had
Speaker 1: also noticed whatever was happening, he thought seemed to be
Speaker 1: centered around Janet, but also though much of the activity
Speaker 1: took place at night in the bedrooms, nothing significant seemed
Speaker 1: to happen unless everybody except family members were out of
Speaker 1: the room at the time, all of which sounded more
Speaker 1: than a little suspect to Guy. Later that night, Guy
Speaker 1: and Graham took their places on the landing outside the bedrooms,
Speaker 1: primed for any unusual activity, while inside the second bedroom,
Speaker 1: where Janet and Margaret were sleeping, camera and flash had
Speaker 1: been rigged up to a shutter release cable that Graham
Speaker 1: could hold outside the door, allowing him to take a
Speaker 1: picture the moment anything strange took place. When they were
Speaker 1: satisfied the girls were asleep, Guy whispered, just loud enough
Speaker 1: to be heard from inside the bedrooms that he and
Speaker 1: Graham should head back downstairs. Taking his cue, Graham promptly
Speaker 1: made his way down, making sure to tread on each
Speaker 1: step twice, while Guy remained stationed outside the bedroom door.
Speaker 1: After waiting a moment, Guy stepped silently into the doorway
Speaker 1: of Janet and Margaret's bedroom and poked his head into
Speaker 1: the room. As his eyes adjusted to the darkness, he
Speaker 1: could just about make out the girls and their eyes
Speaker 1: now tightly closed as if in deep sleep. But when
Speaker 1: the sound of Graham shutting the living room door came
Speaker 1: up from downstairs, Janet opened her eyes suddenly and slowly
Speaker 1: lifted her head from the pillow. She hadn't been sleeping
Speaker 1: at all. After seemingly catching Janet out, Guy headed downstairs
Speaker 1: to tell Peggy and Graham what he'd seen. Despite their disappointment,
Speaker 1: it was agreed not to mention it to Janet, partly
Speaker 1: because Peggy didn't want to upset her, but also, since
Speaker 1: it didn't confirm anything necessarily, they didn't want to unduly
Speaker 1: influence any later behavior by revealing their suspicions about her.
Speaker 1: Later that night, Graham was unable once again to capture
Speaker 1: anything definitive when a marble was found to dropped to
Speaker 1: the floor just inside the bedroom. Deciding to up the ante,
Speaker 1: he returned the following day with even more equipment, swiftly
Speaker 1: rigging up two more cameras and flash guns in Janet's room.
Speaker 1: As Janet prepared for bed, Graham attempted a quick test
Speaker 1: run of the new setup, but when he pressed the
Speaker 1: shutter release button, none of the flashes went off. That's weird,
Speaker 1: he said, as he examined each of them. All three
Speaker 1: had been fully charged before he brought them into the room.
Speaker 1: Now all of them were completely drained of power. The
Speaker 1: following day, Maurice Gross, who'd been ill at home with
Speaker 1: a cold, rejoined Guy at the house. Over the next week,
Speaker 1: with each taking notes and making tape recordings at the
Speaker 1: various goings on. Together, they recorded numerous unusual events, from
Speaker 1: the constant knocking on walls to the shaking of beds,
Speaker 1: as well as the now ever constant barrage of marbles,
Speaker 1: lego and furniture being flung about the place. What was
Speaker 1: particularly strange about the marbles, according to Morris, was the
Speaker 1: way they would often just fall from the air and
Speaker 1: stick to the floor like magnets, not bouncing once and soon,
Speaker 1: though he still had his doubts about Janet, with the
Speaker 1: sheer number of incidents taking place, Guy too began to
Speaker 1: come round to the notion that something truly strange was
Speaker 1: taking place in the Hodgson's home, and all of it
Speaker 1: was entirely consistent with supposed poltergeist activity. On September nineteenth,
Speaker 1: Guy helped the Hodgsons clear out their third bedroom so
Speaker 1: he could spend the night there himself. Though the first
Speaker 1: night was relatively tame, by the second, things got a
Speaker 1: little bit more interesting, with a small metal chair in
Speaker 1: Janet's room being repeatedly knocked over by an apparently invisible force.
Speaker 1: Guy decided to tie it to her bed with some
Speaker 1: garden wire. Only moments later, however, with Guy back out
Speaker 1: on the landing, he heard it tumble over again. Back
Speaker 1: inside the bedroom, Janet and Margaret appeared to be fast
Speaker 1: asleep while the chair was once again on its side,
Speaker 1: having been seemingly tossed into the middle, and the wire
Speaker 1: tying it to the bed had completely snapped off. Peggy
Speaker 1: joined Guy in the room as he picked up the
Speaker 1: chair and placed it once again next to the bed,
Speaker 1: this time making sure to wrap more wire around it
Speaker 1: to keep it firmly in place. With it secured once more,
Speaker 1: Peggy stayed upstairs as Guy headed back down. Moments later,
Speaker 1: another loud scuffle was heard coming from Janet's room. Rushing
Speaker 1: back up, Guy found a stunned Peggy pointing to an
Speaker 1: arm chair that had now been seemingly pushed over in
Speaker 1: the corner. I saw it move by itself, said Peggy
Speaker 1: in startled disbelief. The pair of them then returned downstairs,
Speaker 1: only for yet another crash to be heard coming from
Speaker 1: the bedroom. Rushing up once more, Guy struggled to comprehend
Speaker 1: the scene before him. Now the bed had been wrenched
Speaker 1: away from the wall, while in the middle of the
Speaker 1: room lay that small metal chair, once again ripped free
Speaker 1: from its wire restraints, as if something had pulled at
Speaker 1: it so hard it had pulled the bed out with
Speaker 1: it before being eventually ripped free from the Stepping back outside,
Speaker 1: Guy suddenly noticed one of the children's books was now
Speaker 1: lying in the doorway of the third bedroom. He picked
Speaker 1: it up and read the title with a wry smile,
Speaker 1: Fun and Games for Children, it read. Listening back to
Speaker 1: a recording of the event, Guy marveled at how each
Speaker 1: thing seemed to happen simultaneously, from the scraping of the
Speaker 1: bed to the thud of the chair on the floor,
Speaker 1: to the sound of the book whizzing through the air
Speaker 1: before clattering to the ground, And not once did he
Speaker 1: hear the creak of floorboards or the sound of footsteps.
Speaker 1: Look at your pillow, mum, came Janet's voice, suddenly from
Speaker 1: out of the tape machine, referring to the bed that
Speaker 1: Peggy had made up for herself in the room that
Speaker 1: had yet to be used that day. A allow impression
Speaker 1: had suddenly appeared in it, as if a small, ghostly
Speaker 1: child had rested its head there for just the briefest
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Speaker 1: long after the event with the book, Guy was sent
Speaker 1: running back to the children's bedroom for a fourth time
Speaker 1: that night when Margaret screamed out suddenly for her mum
Speaker 1: after a heavy chest of drawers was tipped over this time, however,
Speaker 1: when listening back to the tape, Guy could clearly hear
Speaker 1: the soft sound of footsteps over the carpet just before
Speaker 1: it happened, though Janet claimed later she'd heard them too
Speaker 1: in the darkness, wasn't so sure. With Morris returning the
Speaker 1: following day, he and Guy agreed that they needed something
Speaker 1: more substantial than audio tape recordings and Graham Morris's near
Speaker 1: miss photographs if they were going to convince anyone that
Speaker 1: the poltergeist activity was genuine. After making a few calls
Speaker 1: in the morning, Morris managed to convince a team of
Speaker 1: video experts from Cambridge to come down to Enfield and
Speaker 1: try and capture the bizarre activity for themselves. That afternoon,
Speaker 1: Morris took a moment to himself in the kitchen when
Speaker 1: he was distracted by a strange clanging sound. The metal
Speaker 1: teapot next to the stove was now rocking slowly from
Speaker 1: side to side of its own accord. Morris stood mesmerized
Speaker 1: watching it for a good seven seconds when it suddenly stopped.
Speaker 1: A short time later, the video team, led by A
Speaker 1: Ron Denny, arrived at the property and swiftly got to
Speaker 1: work installing the top of the range new vi Con
Speaker 1: camera in Janet's bedroom, which was then connected by cable
Speaker 1: to a recording deck and monitor in the living room.
Speaker 1: With everything ready to go, Ron switched on the monitor
Speaker 1: and a soft color image flashed up on the screen
Speaker 1: of Janet lying in bed, her head resting on a
Speaker 1: bright orange pillow and her eyes closed shut. Right here
Speaker 1: we go, then, said Ron, as he switched on the recorder,
Speaker 1: when suddenly all the lights on the device flashed on
Speaker 1: at once. That's strange, said Ron. That's never happened before.
Speaker 1: Ron tried pressing various buttons, but nothing seemed to work,
Speaker 1: and when he tried to eject the tape, it stayed
Speaker 1: resolute lee in the machine. With a sigh, Ron pulled
Speaker 1: out some screwdrivers and promptly set about taking the whole
Speaker 1: thing apart. When they were finally able to extract the tape,
Speaker 1: they found it had become wrapped and jammed around an
Speaker 1: internal sprocket, almost as Guy and Morris couldn't help thinking
Speaker 1: as if something invisible had deliberately tampered with it. Though
Speaker 1: Ron and his team finally got the tape deck to
Speaker 1: work again after filming for five hours straight, they saw
Speaker 1: nothing untoward, Just as it was the next three times
Speaker 1: they returned to the house. To Guy and Morris, the
Speaker 1: explanation was obvious. The poltergeist or whatever it was, seemed
Speaker 1: to know exactly what they were up to, and would
Speaker 1: only act if it knew it couldn't be seen. Not
Speaker 1: knowing what they were dealing with exactly didn't help matters, though.
Speaker 1: At this point both Morris and Guy favored the two
Speaker 1: main possibilities that either Janet was unwittingly exerting her own
Speaker 1: paranormal force or it was all an elaborate hoax. But
Speaker 1: then came something entirely new. It was late in September
Speaker 1: that Peggy's brother John was visiting the family when, after
Speaker 1: heading into the hallway, he stopped suddenly at the foot
Speaker 1: of the stairs, as he recalled it later, from out
Speaker 1: of nowhere, a strange twelve inch strip of light appeared,
Speaker 1: suddenly hanging in the air at the top of the stairs,
Speaker 1: soft and fuzzy, as if he were seeing it through
Speaker 1: frosted glass. He watched it for a good few seconds,
Speaker 1: then moments later it vanished completely. Meanwhile, unbeknownst to John,
Speaker 1: at roughly the same time, the Hodgson's neighbor, Vic Nottingham,
Speaker 1: was out in his garden when he was suddenly distracted
Speaker 1: by a movement in the Hodgson's top floor window that
Speaker 1: looked directly over the top of the stairs. Though he
Speaker 1: couldn't be sure, he was almost certain that for a
Speaker 1: split second he saw the ghostly image of an elderly,
Speaker 1: gray haired lady standing on the landing. Back at his home,
Speaker 1: after another few weeks of the same banging and flying objects,
Speaker 1: but still with nothing concrete to show for it, Guy
Speaker 1: fixed himself a drink and took a seat in his study.
Speaker 1: Grabbing the tape recorder from his desk, he rewound the
Speaker 1: tape then pressed play. Guy sipped his drink as the
Speaker 1: strain of Escape from Planet of the Apes could be
Speaker 1: heard emanating brashly from the TV while the family chatted
Speaker 1: quietly amongst themselves. It was a recording of the Hodgson
Speaker 1: family at home alone from the evening before that Guy
Speaker 1: had made in secret after leaving the house to get
Speaker 1: something to eat, when suddenly a huge bang rang out.
Speaker 1: What was that, said Margaret. Moments later, a tremendous crash
Speaker 1: was heard from the back of the room, followed by
Speaker 1: the sound of Margaret screaming and Peggy, urging them, are
Speaker 1: not to panic. I was just about to sit on
Speaker 1: it when it fell over, said Janet, out of nowhere.
Speaker 1: After a further flurry of activity, Janet could be heard
Speaker 1: running to the window. Suddenly, her words just audible on
Speaker 1: the tape. Hurry up, mister Playfair, wherever you are. Guy
Speaker 1: stopped the tape and took another sip of his drink.
Speaker 1: It wasn't conclusive, necessarily, but at the very least, he
Speaker 1: thought it was hard to deny that certainly, in this instance,
Speaker 1: no one was deliberately putting on a show for him.
Speaker 1: By mid October, the activity had become increasingly violent, with
Speaker 1: large pieces of furniture like the family's sofa and kitchen
Speaker 1: table being routinely upended, and as ever, Janet was almost
Speaker 1: always nearby at the time. Worried that she might be
Speaker 1: being targeted by a malicious spirit, Guy decided it was
Speaker 1: time to try something else. After consulting a friend, he
Speaker 1: was put in touch with two self described mediums who
Speaker 1: agreed to take a look at the house and see
Speaker 1: what they could do. In Playfair's nineteen eighty book about
Speaker 1: the case, This House Is Haunted, the true story of
Speaker 1: the Enfield poltergeist. The pair were given the pseudonyms Annie
Speaker 1: and George Shaw. They arrived at the Hodgson's home the
Speaker 1: following day after taking some time to speak with the family.
Speaker 1: With Margaret and Billy away, they asked for Janet, Peggy, Guy,
Speaker 1: and Morris to gather with them in the living room
Speaker 1: while Annie took a seat on a chair in the
Speaker 1: middle of the room and George took a seat near by.
Speaker 1: Then Annie closed her eyes and began to sway slightly
Speaker 1: as George recited a prayer for peace, when suddenly he
Speaker 1: asked out loud if the spirit could see him go away,
Speaker 1: screamed Annie in a strange, raspy voice, causing them all
Speaker 1: to jump. Then a horrible cackle exploded from her lips.
Speaker 1: Raising his voice, George dem did the entity stop what
Speaker 1: it was doing immediately, only for Annie, now seemingly possessed,
Speaker 1: to spit in his face. Unperturbed, George kept up his
Speaker 1: demands for the spirit to leave, until finally Annie's face
Speaker 1: suddenly relaxed and she opened her eyes. After the bizarre
Speaker 1: session was over, Annie explained that two spirits named Goza
Speaker 1: and Elvie had become dangerously attached to Peggy and Janet
Speaker 1: until draining their uric power. Though Peggy and Janet didn't
Speaker 1: quite know what to make of it, both agreed to
Speaker 1: Annie and George's offer to clean their auras, which, if
Speaker 1: nothing else, seemed to have a calming effect on the
Speaker 1: pair of them. Sadly, however, it wasn't to last for Janet,
Speaker 1: especially who'd started a new school in the time since
Speaker 1: the strange events began. Things were beginning to exert a
Speaker 1: heavy toll. At times. She'd often be so tired that
Speaker 1: she couldn't even make it to school. Later in October,
Speaker 1: a meeting was called by concerned staff to speak with
Speaker 1: Guy and Morris about their investigation. A social worker and
Speaker 1: two welfare psychologists were also invited to discuss the best
Speaker 1: cause of action for her. In the end, it was
Speaker 1: agreed that the family should take a week's holiday together
Speaker 1: to Clacton on Sea, paid for by the council, to
Speaker 1: see if it could help to calm things down. Before long, however,
Speaker 1: things began to take a more sinister turn. One night,
Speaker 1: while Guy was downstairs in the living room, Janet let
Speaker 1: out a blood curdling screen from the bedroom. When Guy
Speaker 1: ran in to check on her, he found her gasping
Speaker 1: for breath. It was trying to stop me breathe, she said.
Speaker 1: I could feel its hand over my mouth when it
Speaker 1: happened again. A short time later, Guy rushed back into
Speaker 1: the room to find the armchair had now been toppled
Speaker 1: over and a deeply distressed Janet sitting upright in bed.
Speaker 1: There was a man sitting on it, she said between sobs.
Speaker 1: A few days later, after spending another night with the family,
Speaker 1: Guy was woken by an ominous thud coming from Janet's bedroom,
Speaker 1: followed by the sound of screams and Peggy racing out
Speaker 1: at the room in terror. Rushing in to investigate, Guy
Speaker 1: could only stare in disbelief at the peculiar sight before him.
Speaker 1: The entire frame of the room's gas fire that had
Speaker 1: been cemented into the wall, was now lying in the
Speaker 1: middle of the carpet in a pile of dust, the
Speaker 1: brass pipe that connected it to the mains still sticking
Speaker 1: out the back of it bent at an angle of
Speaker 1: thirty degrees. There was nothing for it, thought Guy. It
Speaker 1: was time they made contact with whatever this was before
Speaker 1: some one got killed. The following night, with the family
Speaker 1: now gathered in the main bedroom, since none of them
Speaker 1: wanted to sleep in the other room any more. Guy
Speaker 1: explained his simple plan. As soon as any knocking from
Speaker 1: the apparent poltergeist was heard, he would attempt to communicate
Speaker 1: with it by knocking back in reply. As the Hodgsons
Speaker 1: bedded down together above, Guy was joined in the living
Speaker 1: room by Peggy's brother John, where together they sat waiting
Speaker 1: for the first hint of knocking, and before long it
Speaker 1: had begun. It was strange, thought John, as they tried
Speaker 1: to establish where each of the knocks were coming from.
Speaker 1: Although they seemed to be coming from above in the
Speaker 1: vicinity of the main bedroom, they also seemed to be
Speaker 1: coming from numerous parts of the ceiling at the same time.
Speaker 1: Even stranger was that, despite the floor above being carpeted,
Speaker 1: the knocks sounded as though they were actually happening underneath,
Speaker 1: as if knocking directly onto the floorboards upstairs. The family
Speaker 1: could hear it too, right, shouted Guy from below. I'm
Speaker 1: going to knock back. Cover your head, shouted Peggy suddenly
Speaker 1: to Billy, just in time as a slipper came flying
Speaker 1: at him through the air. Sh said Janet, Let's see
Speaker 1: if it answers. Then After two sturdy knocks from Guy below,
Speaker 1: came the steady reply, knock, knock, knock. It's answering, said
Speaker 1: Margaret with excitement. Back downstairs, Guy spoke into the air,
Speaker 1: why are you here? His question was followed by a
Speaker 1: flurry of knocks ringing out from above. Guy smiled with
Speaker 1: satisfaction contact had been made. In early November, the family returned,
Speaker 1: refreshed and energized from their much needed break to Clacton
Speaker 1: on Sea. For Peggy, however, it was bitter sweet. Though
Speaker 1: she couldn't remember the last time they'd all been so happy,
Speaker 1: she was suddenly overcome with sadness on the train home
Speaker 1: at the thought of what they were heading back to exactly.
Speaker 1: She was soon put at ease by Morris and Guy, however,
Speaker 1: with their belief that they were finally getting somewhere after
Speaker 1: Guy's successful attempt to make contact the week before. That night,
Speaker 1: when the knocking started up again, it was Morris's turn
Speaker 1: to ask the questions. As the children got ready for bed,
Speaker 1: Marris took his place in the bedroom, while just outside
Speaker 1: the door, Guy laid down on the landing with his
Speaker 1: ear pressed at the linoleum floor. Then, after satisfying himself
Speaker 1: that the children weren't responsible. Morris began, now remember, he said,
Speaker 1: it's one knock for no and two for yes. Did
Speaker 1: you die in this house? Knock? Knock came the reply,
Speaker 1: will you go away? Knock? How many years did you
Speaker 1: live here? Ten knock? More than twenty? Knock knock? Next,
Speaker 1: Morris asked it to tap out how many years ago
Speaker 1: it moved away? Fifty three knocks came back in return.
Speaker 1: Did you die that year? He asked, knock knock? Are
Speaker 1: you having a game with me? Just then a box
Speaker 1: full of cushions flew up from beside the fireplace, hitting
Speaker 1: Morris on the head. A few days later, Guy invited
Speaker 1: his friend, physicist Eduardo Balanowski to the house to conduct
Speaker 1: a series of tests using equipment designed to measure apparent
Speaker 1: variations in the magnetic field. After setting it up for
Speaker 1: the night in Janet's bedroom, unusual fluctuations were recorded when
Speaker 1: a number of items were suddenly thrown about the room. However,
Speaker 1: the findings proved inconclusive. Later that night, things then took
Speaker 1: a further sinister turn when Margaret was heard crying out
Speaker 1: for help from the stairs. When Morris and Peggy rushed
Speaker 1: through to help, they found her seemingly unable to move.
Speaker 1: It's holding my leg, she cried in horror. It was,
Speaker 1: as Morris said later, as if she'd been glued to
Speaker 1: the spot, and only after considerable effort were they able
Speaker 1: to free her. Early the following morning, Janet was found
Speaker 1: on the bedroom floor, claiming to have been thrown out
Speaker 1: of her bed. In what quickly became a new recurring incident.
Speaker 1: Over the next few days, Janet was found repeatedly on
Speaker 1: the floor of her bedroom, each time claiming that she
Speaker 1: was pulled out of bed by an invisible force. On
Speaker 1: November fifteenth, with no sign of any let up from
Speaker 1: the apparent haunting, Peggy Hodgson collapsed from exhaustion, after which
Speaker 1: she was ordered to rest at a brother's home for
Speaker 1: a few days while the children were taken into care.
Speaker 1: With the family out of the house for a few days,
Speaker 1: Guy made a second attempt to find out more about
Speaker 1: the apparent entity with the help of another self described medium. However,
Speaker 1: much to Guy's surprise, she failed to sense anything there
Speaker 1: at all. Early in the morning of Saturday, November twenty sixth,
Speaker 1: Peggy and Vic Nottingham were woken up by a violent
Speaker 1: knocking coming from the Hodgson's home, only realizing afterwards that
Speaker 1: the place was completely empty at the time. Later that day,
Speaker 1: with Peggy rested and the children back from the care home,
Speaker 1: Peggy arranged for Margaret and Billy to stay with their
Speaker 1: uncle while she and Janet went back to Number two
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty four, accompanied by Morris and photographer Graham.
Speaker 1: Guy was visiting Margaret and Billy that evening when Peggy
Speaker 1: suddenly burst into the house, telling him to come quickly.
Speaker 1: Guy could hear Janet's screams from four doors away as
Speaker 1: he rushed toward the house. Running into the bedroom, he
Speaker 1: found Janet flailing wildly and screaming for Peggy, with Janet
Speaker 1: seemingly unresponsive to the fact that Peggy was right there
Speaker 1: with her. Her distraught mother could only watch on helplessly
Speaker 1: as Morris and Graham did their best to pin Janet
Speaker 1: down before she hurt herself. A doctor was promptly called,
Speaker 1: who arrived just after eleven p m. And, without even
Speaker 1: examining her, simply gave Janet a shot of valium, with
Speaker 1: the ten milligram dose being thought more than enough to
Speaker 1: send her to sleep. Peggy and Morris tucked her back
Speaker 1: into bed and left her to sleep it off. Thirty
Speaker 1: minutes later, after hearing yet another crash from the bedroom,
Speaker 1: they all rushed back up to find Janet in her nightclothes,
Speaker 1: perched up high on top of a radio set in
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Speaker 1: next few days, Janet continued to drift in and out
Speaker 1: of trance like states, while also appearing to be continually
Speaker 1: flung out of her bed. A further trip to the
Speaker 1: hospital resulted in a psychiatric assessment that found nothing wrong
Speaker 1: with the young girl. As the strange trances continued, however,
Speaker 1: Guy felt compelled to turn once more to a pair
Speaker 1: of self described mediums who he'd met during his time
Speaker 1: in Brazil for help. As Guy wrote in his book,
Speaker 1: Janet was resting on the sofa in the living room
Speaker 1: when Louise and Elsie arrived to begin their session. While
Speaker 1: the pair headed upstairs to one of the bedrooms to
Speaker 1: consult their spirit guides, Janet became suddenly restless and fell
Speaker 1: off the sofa, then started to kick and ride about
Speaker 1: on the floor. Hearing the commotion, Louise and Elsie quickly
Speaker 1: burst into the room and held Janet down as Louise
Speaker 1: urged her to resist the entity, when suddenly Janet opened
Speaker 1: her eyes as if nothing had happened. The next morning,
Speaker 1: while Janet apparently dozed in and out of sleep on
Speaker 1: the sofa, Peggy watched with alarm when at one point
Speaker 1: she took hold of a pad and some coloring pens
Speaker 1: and began to draw a series of pictures in quick succession.
Speaker 1: Peggy gasped when she saw them. One showed what she
Speaker 1: took to be a woman with blood drawn crudely in
Speaker 1: red felt tip pen, pouring out of her throat and
Speaker 1: the name Wilkins written in large letters across the bottom.
Speaker 1: Another was simply the word blood written several times over
Speaker 1: and over again on the page, with Janet seeming not
Speaker 1: to know. Peggy took them away as soon as they
Speaker 1: were drawn and handed them to Guy and Morris when
Speaker 1: they arrived at the house later that afternoon. With Peggy
Speaker 1: at a loss to explain it all, Guy asked her
Speaker 1: to think about anyone they might know called Wilkins. Of course,
Speaker 1: she said, suddenly remembering the couple who lived in the
Speaker 1: house before them were called Wilkins. And did they die here?
Speaker 1: Asked Guy? The husband, did I think, but not, the wife,
Speaker 1: said Peggy. She died in a house up the road.
Speaker 1: And what did she die of exactly, asked Guy, looking
Speaker 1: down at the picture of the woman and the blood
Speaker 1: gushing from her throat. Then Peggy's face dropped. She died
Speaker 1: of throat cancer, she said. As winter began to bite
Speaker 1: outside by early December, things had never been worse inside
Speaker 1: two hundred and eighty four Green Street. By now Janet
Speaker 1: and Margaret two were seemingly being constantly wrenched from their
Speaker 1: beds by unknown forces, sometimes up to ten times a night.
Speaker 1: In the early morning of December third, Maurice was in
Speaker 1: the living room with Peggy when yet another loud crash
Speaker 1: from upstairs had them racing to the bedroom to check
Speaker 1: on Janet, but she was nowhere to be found. Running
Speaker 1: back on to the landing, Maurice gasped in horror when
Speaker 1: he spotted her bizarrely lying face down on the stairs,
Speaker 1: slowly sliding to the bottom of them, as if something
Speaker 1: were pulling her down. Margaret too was now having her
Speaker 1: own strange episodes, having taken to sitting up suddenly in
Speaker 1: bed from time to time, despite appearing to be completely asleep.
Speaker 1: On one occasion, Maris took the opportunity to slip a
Speaker 1: pencil into her hand to see if she might do
Speaker 1: anything with it. Then she proceeded to write the numbers
Speaker 1: one to ten on a piece of paper. With Margaret
Speaker 1: still appearing to be asleep, Morris asked her to explain
Speaker 1: what the numbers meant. Then, as also detailed in Playfair's book,
Speaker 1: she replied, one was a baby, two a little girl,
Speaker 1: Three was a big girl, four a girl about fifteen,
Speaker 1: five an old lady, six a young boy, seven a
Speaker 1: boy of eighteen and eight was an old man. Then
Speaker 1: she paused, no, I don't know. She said, he hasn't
Speaker 1: got a face, and ten has gone away now. Then suddenly,
Speaker 1: without warning, she shouted the name Joe Wilkins. Who's that?
Speaker 1: Asked John, who was also present that night the man
Speaker 1: who died on the chair downstairs, replied Margaret, not once
Speaker 1: opening her eyes. Then, without saying another word, she lay
Speaker 1: back down and settled back to sleep. You've been listening
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